But, I'm sure that the un-call for civility can also be overdone. We will arrive at such a point when the purportedly reactive 'un-calling' overwhelms the initial 'calls' in straw-graspyness, out-of-proportionness, and un-interestingness.

Maybe I'm an early adopter (e.g. I did initially note that it made no sense to tie Palin's comments/graphics to the shooing). Presumably others will eventually catch up, by becoming bored w/ the 'un-call.'

I want us to live up to Tom Brady's expectations. I want our democracy to be as good as Tom imagined it. All of us - we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to Tom Brady's expectations.

In other news, an aspiring football team, hoping for inclusion in the NFL, fielded it's 1st roster.The owner of the Portland Oregon "Mudclams" said that his players would be "nontraditional", blending college football players with female grief counselors, wheelchair athletes, diminutive Vietnamese-American ethnics, gay 120-lb ice skaters, obese Mexican American females, and the 1st Muslim punter."Diversity is our Greatest Strength", owner Fazul Rabazz, said."Whether we win or lose is besides the point. The objective is to feel good about outselves, get hugs from the grief counselors as we muff play after play, gain more civility and self-esteem".

The Packers defeated the Eagles and the Falcons, so birds need to watch out. It will be more fun to see them go after the Bears. "Packers" refers to meat-packing, so I think Bears are more meat than Seahawks. Enough fowl. We want red meat.

Now, after we butcher the Bears, it's on to the Super Bowl (which suggests a bird, Superb Owl, but there will be no birds in the Super Bowl). Who will face the Packers: Jets, Patriots, or Steelers. The best image isn't Packers against Jets. Jets are planes. I don't like the imagery. So Patriots or Steelers. Both are human beings. I think Steelers makes for the best imagery, because Packers and Steelers are both working guys. There's a nice parallelism to that, which pleases me.

I also care about what I like to call their "costumes." Certainly, yesterday, the Steelers' costumes were much better than the Ravens costumes. Man, the Ravens looked like they were wearing ladies' leggings. I think you want some color break at the knee, so I was for the Steelers.

campy said..."Remember, before we are Packers or Falcons, we are Americans."

Not me. I'm a Packer-American. I come from a long line of packers. Meat packers. Indian meat packers. Reviled and discriminated against for generations, we're here now ready to claim our rightful government set-aside contracts.

Maybe if the NFL could buy into the cult of, "Can't we all get along," players from opposing teams could share the same bench like those of the Get Along cult want to do in congress for the SOTU speech. Of course players would have to be on their honor not to steal signals and plays from the opposing team which I am sure they would be willing to do since they're not really competitive at heart.